Elias Atallah

Elias Atallah (1947-) was a leader of the Lebanese National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War.

Biography
Elias Atallah was born in 1947 to a family of Maronites in Lebanon, and he joined the Lebanese Communist Party in 1971 before becoming a prominent leader of the Lebanese National Movement alongside George Hawi and Kamal Jumblatt. In 1982, he helped in resisting the Israeli invasion of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, and in 2004 he became the chairperson of the Democratic Left Movement. Atallah was elected to be the Maronite representative for Tripoli in parliament in 2005.